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I’m not sure what impresses me most- the ceramic faucet handle or the wood pallet vanity. It’s those special touches that make remodled bathrooms such a treasure.
Oh but that handy bucket drain so you can recycle the water just clinches the ghetto chic of this marvelous period remodel. You could install this under any old building or squat, any place that there’s water drips and save a fortune on water bills!
Looking at this, I said to myself, “This has got to be Russian or former Soviet.” Then I noticed the red Russian lettering at the upper right. I think the sink is also a giveaway – kind of a standard design there.
Please notice that there is no out pipe underneath. Just another bucket.
Is that a Snapple bottle dumping water into a trough, and thence into the bucket?
I’m truly impressed by the ingenuity used here, especially since it was to produce something completely pointless.
This device is actually more pointless than Peter’s breakfast machine (Family Guy refference
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Judging from the Pi-Kappa on the wall, I’d guess this is Russia . . .
. . . Where water doesn’t run to you, YOU run to the water!
and when the bucket under the drain is fall, you just swap it with the one up top.
Explanation: This is a simple Rube Goldberg hand-washing machine.
Directions: Start the flow of water by turning the valve on the 2″ water supply pipe. To prevent water from splashing all over the place, cut the bottom out of a Snapple bottle and use it as a funnel to direct the water into the rusty trough, where it flows downward and fills the pail. To wash your hands, choose from one of the many containers of soaps on the pallet vanity, the sink, the iron ledge or from the plastic bag hanging from the nearby pipe. If your hands are really dirty, you can use the yellow nail scrubbing brush on the sink. Next, open the faucet on the pail and let the water flow… into the sink and out the open drain into the plastic bucket with the hole in the lid. Then simply towel off with one of the many rags hanging around. Note- if the Snapple bottle isn’t working, try the Coke or Sprite bottle funnels on the pallet. If it’s a heavy rust flow day from the trough, strain it with the fish-fry rack hanging from the pipe.
Oh, and don’t forget to wash out your Tupperware container from lunch.
Yeah, it’s Russia (or Ukraine). It’s russian reality in many cases… They even fix teeth through the ass!
Not going to lie, this looks like one handy-dandy water system. But I’m not sure i would want one like it…my reasoning? rusty pipes maybe?
@dono1
And when the bottom bucket is full, the added weight tips a lever which pushes a marble down the track, which lights a lighter, which burns the string holding back the bowling ball, which falls; tied to it is another string tied to the faucet, which opens and refills the top bucket again!
@Paddy
Touché! I see you’re a student of Rube Goldberg. But the lighter should light a candle which burns the string. And there should be an animal involved- maybe a turtle, who gets a hot foot from the candle and slowly walks forward, pulling on the string attached to his shell that’s connected to the faucet…
Could this be the top-secret pharmaceutical research lab for the government’s universal health care plan? Well, at least we’ll all be getting our RDA of iron.
oh wow! i heard there was a new russian space station coming online
There you go! There’s always an animal in the works.
Oops, I quoted the wrong one!
Actually, after visiting far-out-country-side, nowhere, Cambodia, this seems rather familiar… Oh the joys of civilization.
(Be aware that the water is not pumped there, it comes from a rain collector (Big metal bucket) on the roof
What’s the other pipes for? The apparatchiks in the other rooms, who have both lukewarm and cold water?
you can warm water if you put some candels under the bucket, it saves co2
This is almost as good as the contraption that Doc Brown has in “Back to the Future: Part III” to create ice cubes in the Old West. Almost.
That’s the problem with those pedestal sinks: no place to store your stuff.
@Daniel
Yes, Daniel, we noticed that when yolanda pointed it out 16 minutes before you did. Please see Comment #2.
Putin’s Bathroom?
Like to see the toilet that goes with
@ShermanKent
Comments 2 and 3 were not visible when I posted mine. It said 3 posts but only showed dono1′s. I don’t know how that works but it happens often.
“Comments 2 and 3 were not visible when I posted mine. It said 3 posts but only showed dono1’s. I don’t know how that works but it happens often.”
@Daniel: I’ve noticed the same thing. Someone else mentioned that they couldn’t see all the comments. Paddy, was that you?
Running water is what you get if you eat or drink things that you shouldn’t
I sense a there I fixed your thereifixedit coming…
@Badgirl
Yes, that was me.
@Daniel: As long as it uses duct tape some how, even for decoration would be nice.
@Badgirl
Someone already pointed out the bucket under the sink…
prop from ratatoiule
@Demetrius – why yes, you are right, of course!
I am not sure which was funnier the actual plumbing system or peoples comments. Where does stuff like this come from. Is this for real or a joke is what I want to know.
Ah, Russia… It seems the art of epic fixing was invented there
But where does the mouse go once it’s caught?
Someone wrecked a nice old samovar (tea kettle) for that spigot.
It is running. Running away.
Make sure you open the right pipe for the water – the one that is marked with “ok” on the right…